to use firearms for the purpose. Each person authorised 

 must have a written authority from the occupier, which 

 must be produced on demand by the person having the 

 right of shooting over the land, or anyone authorised in 

 writing by the latter. Otherwise, the person taking ground 

 game, other than the occupier himself, will be guilty of a 

 trespass in pursuit. 



The rights can be exercised all the year round, except 

 on moorlands or unenclosed lands (not being arable lands) 

 "which either do not adjoin arable land, or if they do, are 

 not less than 25 acres in extent. On these the occupier's 

 right is exercisable only from the 1st December to the 

 31st March both inclusive, and as to the period from 1st 

 September to 1 0th December inclusive firearms may not 

 be used. In respedt of this last mentioned period, too, 

 the occupier and person having the sporting rights may 

 make an agreement as to the joint exercise of the right 

 of killing ground game. This is the only case in which an 

 agreement can have any legal effect. 



An owner occupying his land and not letting the 

 shooting can kill ground game how and when he likes, 

 but if he lets the shooting he is in the same position as 

 an occupying tenant where the shooting is reserved. 



A tenant of land who has the shooting as well may 

 not set spring traps, except in rabbit holes, use poison, or 

 idll ground game by firearms at night. 



A shooting tenant who does not hire the land may 

 shoot ground game at night or set spring traps elsewhere 

 than in rabbit holes, unless, of course, he has contradled 

 not to do so. 



The law as to ground game applies to the whole of 



the United Kingdom. « , 

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